Rehabilitation needs screening to identify potential beneficiaries: a scoping review by Carla Sabariego, Wouter De Groote, Melissa Corso, Kent Murnaghan, Antony Duttine

“…Most tools have been proposed for the identification of a rehabilitation beneficiary among people with selected health conditions assessing the need to access a specific rehabilitation intervention, programme or occupational group. …”
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A novel approach to analyzing the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 based on visualization and clustering of large genetic data compactly represented in operative memory by A. Yu. Palyanov, N. V. Palyanova

“…Our implementation of such data represen­tation resulted in a 1:1500 compression ratio (for comparison, compression of the same data with the popular WinRAR archiver gives only 1:62) and fast access to genomes (and their metadata) and comparisons between different genome variants. …”
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Outcomes of a pilot randomized clinical trial testing brief interventions to increase HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis uptake among rural people who inject drugs attending syringe serv... by Hilary L. Surratt, Sarah Brown, Abby L. Burton, Will Cranford, Laura C. Fanucchi, Christie Green, Stephanie M. Mersch, Rebecca Rains, Philip M. Westgate

“…Background: Kentucky is one of seven states with high, sustained rural HIV transmission tied to injection drug use. Expanding access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been endorsed as a key HIV prevention strategy; however, uptake among people who inject drugs (PWID) has been negligible in rural areas. …”
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Use of lay vaccinators in animal vaccination programmes: A scoping review. by Christian Tetteh Duamor, Katie Hampson, Felix Lankester, Maganga Sambo, Katharina Kreppel, Sally Wyke, Sarah Cleaveland

“…The main reason for using lay vaccinators was to provide access to animal vaccination in the absence of professional veterinarians (n = 12, 40%). …”
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Malnutrition among under-5 children and its determinants in the southwestern coastal region of Bangladesh: A community-based study by Shahinur Akter, Nishana Afrin Nishu

“…Moreover, children aged ≤24 months (AOR = 0.151; 95% CI: 0.034 to 0.661; p = 0.012) and 25–36 months (AOR = 0.195; 95% CI: 0.046 to 0.829; p = 0.027) were less possibly to be moderately stunted.Conclusion The study recommends training young mothers on effective child-rearing practices, creating income opportunities for women in rural Bangladesh, implementing local awareness programmes about appropriate growth standards for children and expanding facility-based healthcare centres in rural areas for better access to quality healthcare.…”
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Online cognitive–behavioural therapy for traumatically bereaved people: study protocol for a randomised waitlist-controlled trial by Jos de Keijser, Lonneke Lenferink, Maarten Eisma, Geert Smid, Paul Boelen

“…If the treatment is demonstrated to be effective, it will be made publicly accessible. Findings will be disseminated among lay people (eg, through newsletters and media performances), our collaborators (eg, through presentations at support organisations), and clinicians and researchers (eg, through conference presentations and scientific journal articles).Trial registration number NL7497.…”
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CalciumZero: a toolbox for fluorescence calcium imaging on iPSC derived brain organoids by Xiaofu He, Yian Wang, Yutong Gao, Xuchen Wang, Zhixiong Sun, Huixiang Zhu, Kam W. Leong, Bin Xu

“…Investigating the dynamics of the calcium level in neurons is essential not just for understanding the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders but also as a quantitative gauge to evaluate the influence of drugs on neuron activities. Accessing human brain tissue to study neuron activities has historically been challenging due to ethical concerns. …”
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Zinc Monotherapy as an Alternative Treatment Option for Decompensated Liver Disease due to Wilson Disease? by Hansa Haftu, Mohammed Mustefa, Teklu Gebrehiwot

“…Though zinc has its own side effects, it is important and maybe an alternative treatment option in those with limited resources (not able to access chelators). This example hopefully will encourage future investigations and researches on zinc monotherapy for treating symptomatic decompensated hepatic Wilson disease.…”
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Genetic Analyses on Transgender Individuals: Impact on Physician Attitudes and Surgical Decision‐Making by Duygu Onur Cura, Ayfer Ülgenalp, Tufan Çankaya

“…In this context, we intended to highlight a number of strategies to reduce the inequalities that the TGD community is exposed to in accessing health‐care services. Method An online survey including the Turkish version of the Attitudes Toward Transgendered Individuals Scale (ATTIS) was completed by 224 physicians from relevant specialties. …”
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Antenatal care visits and its determinants among women in Afar regional state: North Eastern Ethiopia by Aragaw Asfaw Hasen

“…Factors such as residence, mother’s literacy rate, age at first birth, number of living children, number of under five children in the house and marital status were major determinants of ANC (Antenatal Care) visit in Afar region. Increase access to antenatal care services by improving the availability and quality of health facilities in the region. …”
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Artificial Neural Networks as a Tool for High-Accuracy Prediction of In-Cylinder Pressure and Equivalent Flame Radius in Hydrogen-Fueled Internal Combustion Engines by Federico Ricci, Massimiliano Avana, Francesco Mariani

“…Additionally, the artificial neural network is employed to predict the equivalent flame radius, thereby obviating the need for repeated tests using dedicated high-speed cameras in optical access research engines, due to the resource-intensive nature of data acquisition and post-processing. …”
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QAR Data Imputation Using Generative Adversarial Network with Self-Attention Mechanism by Jingqi Zhao, Chuitian Rong, Xin Dang, Huabo Sun

“…Quick Access Recorder (QAR), an important device for storing data from various flight parameters, contains a large amount of valuable data and comprehensively records the real state of the airline flight. …”
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Enterprise energy supply system design management based on renewable energy sources by S. Drobyazko, M. Skrypnyk, N. Radionova, O. Hryhorevska, M. Matiukha

“…==========================================================================================COPYRIGHTS©2021 The author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, as long as the original authors and source are cited. …”
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Status of zoonotic disease research in refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced people, globally: A scoping review of forty clinically important zoonotic pathogens. by Regina Oakley, Nadja Hedrich, Alexandra Walker, Habtamu Merha Dinkita, Rea Tschopp, Charles Abongomera, Daniel H Paris

“…Disease outbreaks were reported in 46 publications (13.3%), with viruses being the most commonly reported pathogen type. Limited access to hygiene/sanitation, crowding and refugee status were the most commonly discussed predictors of infection. …”
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Detection of Vertical Root Fractures Using Cone-Beam Computed Tomography in the Presence and Absence of Gutta-Percha by Ehsan Hekmatian, Mitra Karbasi kheir, Hossein Fathollahzade, Mahnaz Sheikhi

“…In this cross-sectional study, 50 extracted mandibular premolars were selected. After preparing the access cavity, canals were instrumented using step-back method, and gutta-percha #40 was placed afterwards. …”
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Breast and cervical cancer screening among women at reproductive age in Cambodia: A secondary analysis of Cambodia Demographic and Health Survey 2022. by Samnang Um, Heng Sopheab

“…Therefore, increase of exposure media with health education focusing on these cancer screenings should be made better accessible to women, particularly those of low socio-economic status.…”
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The library collection of the Waqf of Ahmed Agha in Mostar from the mid-17th century by Adnan Kadrić, Muamer Hodžić, Madžida Mašić

“…Regarding the presence of works from the original collection established by the Babusaade Ahmed Agha, the main research base was the Gazi Husrev-beg Library collection in Sarajevo, which provided direct access to works from the mentioned collection, as well as published catalogs of manuscripts in Oriental languages from this institution. …”
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Obesity phenotypes and dyslipidemia in adults from four African countries: An H3Africa AWI-Gen study. by Engelbert A Nonterah, Godfred Agongo, Nigel J Crowther, Shukri F Mohamed, Lisa K Micklesfield, Palwendé Romuald Boua, Alisha N Wade, Solomon S R Choma, Hermann Sorgho, Isaac Kissiangani, Gershim Asiki, Patrick Ansah, Abraham R Oduro, Shane A Norris, Stephen M Tollman, Frederick J Raal, Marianne Alberts, Michele Ramsay, as members of AWI-Gen and the H3Africa Consortium

“…Targeted interventions to control the epidemic should focus on health promoting and improved access to screening services.…”
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White noise’s effect on premature infants’ physiological parameters during peripheral intravenous catheter insertion by Omolbani Rahimi, FatemehSadat SeyedNematollah Roshan, Leila Nikrouz

“…Listening to white noise is an accessible and inexpensive non-invasive method that can be used as a safe nursing intervention in hospitals. …”
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Cervical cancer screening utilization among HIV-positive women in Edo State, Nigeria by Ngozi R. Osunde, Mercy N. Anayo, Ona Patience, Favour E. Omoregie

“…Specific objectives included examining awareness levels, utilization rates, and potential barriers to access. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at an institution and involved HIV-positive women attending an HIV clinic from August 2022 to July 2023. …”
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